Designing Retail Success

Designing Retail Success

Tag: Retail

How Site Surveys & Installation Reviews Can Reduce Risk for Your Retail Technology Deployment One of the best ways to reduce risks for your retail technology deployments is to make sure you know all the various aspects of each of the stores in your portfolio. There are few things worse than sending a pallet… Read more »

Why You Must Design Your Retail Technology Deployments—Not Just Plan Them Plan vs Design Webster’s dictionary defines Plan as “to arrange a method or scheme beforehand for any work, enterprise, or proceeding”. Webster defines Design as “to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the… Read more »

Defining Resources Required for a Successful Retail Technology Deployment You know that old saying, “It takes a village to raise a child”? Well, I say “It takes an army to have a successful Retail Technology Deployment”. It can be staggering the number of people that need to be involved in even a seemingly small… Read more »

Key Considerations for Developing Your Retail Technology Deployment Scope Definition It seems like a no-brainer that you must clearly define scope when working on your retail technology deployment. I’m constantly surprised at how many retailers do not take the time to fully define up front. At best, retailers usually define which stores are included… Read more »

How to Conduct Retail Technology Deployment Design Workshops When preparing for your retail technology deployments, a great way to facilitate and organize the development of the Deployment Design is to conduct a Design Workshop with the core Project Team. Either, an experienced Deployment Designer can be brought in to facilitate the discussion and fully document… Read more »

I absolutely love retail technology deployments! Why? Because they are so challenging. I’ve been in IT for almost 30 years. And have done just about every type of deployment you can imagine – business application rollouts, infrastructure replacement, upgrade, bug patches, and new installations, desktop refreshes, software upgrades, and on and on. All of them are challenging… Read more »

. Imagine you work for a national retailer and your boss calls you into their office to give you a new project. They need to quickly update all the wireless infrastructure in the entire portfolio of 2,000 stores and you have six months to complete! You have to complete a site survey, implementation review, configure… Read more »

The Fresh Market’s Fall. How this once great company became a shell of itself, from the inside. I worked for The Fresh Market (TFM) for more than 14 years. Even though I have been away for over 6 years, I kept up with what was going on with the company. I also had many co-workers still working there. The… Read more »

The show was fantastic! So many people, so much information, so many companies. There was no way you could consume all of it. After spending 4 days in Las Vegas at Shoptalk 2018, I have put together my 5 biggest takeaways from the conference. Brick and Mortar Retail Isn’t Dead With all the doom and… Read more »

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